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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
The membership of the committee which will conduct the Independent Review of Free Personal Care, which is being lead by Lord Sutherland, has been announced.
The membership will include Anne Jarvie, a former Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland, Mary Marshall, the former Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre, Professor David Bell, the Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling, Jim Dickie, a former Director of Social Work for North Lanarskshire Council and past President of the Association of Directors of Social Work, and Rory Mair, the Chief Executive of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
The review is being led by Lord Sutherland and will investigate the level and distribution of resources to councils to deliver the free personal and nursing care policy since 2002 and to ensure its future sustainability.
The group will meet for the first time on September 3 and has been asked to report by March 2008.
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon said she was determined not only to enhance free personal care provision, but to secure its place at the heart of the social care agenda. She has already confirmed in June that free personal and nursing care payments would be increased from April 2008 in line with inflation.
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